How To Get ALL Affinity Apps For FREE!

This video was NOT sponsored in any way, nor am I affiliated to Affinity. I just love using their software, and you will too! 😉

[BigJimSlade]

I once made a living using Adobe products. Got rid of them years ago and I've never looked back.

[rsbelements]

am using Affinity ever since ❤ pls give me a hug ❤

[GavinKiwiGavColvin]

Great Vid Rens...ironically I had a Adobe ad before your video

[dalilsouq]

me 2 .. im Done with Adobe... just shifted to Affinity

[Nacreous]

Thought it would be much harder and more limiting to switch to Affinity but it's very similar and i like the UI even more than Adobe's and i got used to it in a day, never looking back

[Michael-fwef]

I finally bought Affinity after watching some of your videos. I am having a hard time using the perspective tool. I just want to make a DVD look straight and proper when standing up, but I can't figure it out. Do you have a perspective tool explanation video?

[holdthetruthhostage]

I'm going all in Affinity so long as it's close to Photoshop all good

[marcosribas]

It's been a few months since I bought Affinity Photo. I live in Brazil, where one year of an Adobe subscription costs the equivalent of two months' rent. Affinity Photo does everything Photoshop does, except for AI. But honestly, I only used it for image scaling, and other AI tools do that even better and for free.

[pedroarruda]

In my humble opinion, this was the 'final blow' for Adobe!
After that and with the free version of Davinci Resolve (I have the Studio version), there is nothing Adobe can do, after years of 'monopoly', of 'extursion', of lack of complicity with its subscribers!
These mistakes pay dearly.

[devicenotfound]

I’ll give that like button a high-five and watch the video on loop if it’s about saying goodbye to Adobe!😂

[jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

Affinity? Pixelmator Pro? Krita? I’d be happy if I were able to paste an image into a selection. I could do that in photoshop 2

[InteractiveDNA]

Until you end-up going back to Adobe. There are a tons of things Affinity has not yet implemented. The export is a HUGE problem in capabilities and production houses will not accept that. If you are a solo artist, ok but if you work with others and applications you are stuck Adobe. I use both, Affinity and Adobe, Affinity to design but everything ends up back to Adobe for final product.

[CloudStrife]

Serif does not compete with Adobe . They’ve said so themselves. Also the suite is not good by itself. It’s passable. You need a Dam and a raw developer.

[cldcne]

“EVERYBODY Is Switching To Affinity NOW!”
Does the hyperbolic sensationalist clickbait ever stop?

[sebastianmichael]

I quite enjoy watching you and your technical lessons, but your commentary is unbearable. You know nothing about Affinity. Serif (now Canva) is not competition for Adobe, was never meant to be, and never will be. This is because Serif has always created software for amateurs, advanced amateurs, and the office sector. They never had the ambition nor the financial means to even slightly enter the professional market, especially regarding licensing issues.
There's a bit of a language discrepancy here, as in English, even if you're rubbish and know nothing, but you're doing it for money, you're considered 'professional'. No, you're professional when you do something well, efficiently, responsibly, and all based on vast knowledge and experience. So you're not a professional if you opened a business last week and sold your first project made in Affinity. You're NOT A PROFESSIONAL; you're an amateur who managed to earn a bit using amateur software.
In this sense, as an environment for business, DTP applications, image manipulation, photography (from the very process of capturing images), for consistent printing techniques, for all this matter in which experienced professionals use this type of software, Affinity doesn't even try to be professional! This doesn't mean Affinity is worse than Adobe, no. It's just that Adobe is for professional applications, and Affinity is for home users, some self-proclaimed YouTube influencer, for a small office somewhere in a school.
Affinity is for people who don't need to complete technical studies to understand how printing works, what chemistry it uses, what colours look like, why these inks and not others, why this paper and not another, why this machine, and for whom the simple or even simplistic, outdated functions of Affinity are sufficient. The fact that many people on YouTube monetise their ability to use Affinity doesn't make this software package professional.
You, making such comments, act as if you didn't know Serif at all before Affinity. Affinity uses outdated ideas that we've known well for over 25 years. Affinity has NOT YET introduced ANYTHING NEW beyond the PLUS line. The idea behind Affinity's creation was to rewrite the code, not, as you might think, a desire to make a mark in the market.
Serif was a very well-recognised brand with great ideas for solutions within the functionality of DTP or photographic programs. They had to look for their own solutions because they simply couldn't afford to buy patents. I've talked for dozens of hours with Serif engineers; they never mentioned that Affinity was meant to be for professionals.
Affinity was created to rewrite the code and clean up programming errors in existing Plus products. To this day, Affinity hasn't shown any functional novelty beyond what we've known and loved in Serif for over 25 years. There's one, only one novelty, namely that Photo, Designer, and Publisher programs can open and import each other's formats (in fact, one document format was introduced, and I discussed plans for this with Serif engineers 17 years ago, so even this isn't new, just a dinosaur's breath).
Affinity is the successor to the Plus line. Neither Plus nor the idea for Affinity was EVER meant to get in Adobe's way. Adobe is for the professional market, Plus and Affinity for home users, office users, amateurs, and advanced amateurs.
Look at the Serif forums; for 25 years, there have been constant inquiries about, for example, cooperation with colour proofing. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN (maybe now Canva can afford it) because you have to pay for patents, integrate software capabilities with the world of professionals, and Serif engineers never planned this. The printing system doesn't meet the requirements of the printing world; it's not suitable for professionals.
And now, where am I going with this? The world is changing and doesn't need more professionals (not to the previous extent, today even a monkey can use the software, just give it a banana, so professionals are less needed, self-proclaimed influencers are enough). Business and (big?) money revolve around self-proclaimed specialists, actually ordinary people without education, influencers who have likes but not knowledge. That's why a large part of Adobe users will switch to Affinity because they are real amateurs, not university-educated professionals in the world of printing, image, photography.
I've been a fan of Serif since their PagePlus 2, which I used on Windows 3.1 (1993). I know Serif and all their programs, I had my modest contribution to fixing some functionalities (very modest, in the form of opinions given during dozens of hours of phone discussions), and I don't see how anything from Serif could be called professional. Affinity is good for homegrown influencers, but not for professionals. Adobe will shake it off, improve legal provisions, and will still be the only option for the world of big money, advertising with million-dollar budgets, or several-hour photo sessions worth as much as a sea yacht. The professional world of image and real money will stay with Adobe, everyone else will try Affinity. One last thing. I'm not criticising your courses or advice. In this area, you're doing a great job (like many other Affinity advocates), and I wish you continued success in this. However, I can't remain indifferent to the alleged takeover of the REAL PROFESSIONAL market by Affinity at Adobe's expense. Warm regards to you!